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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Moel-y-Gaer (Bodfari) Alternative Name: Moel y Gaer BodfariCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.28 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Denbighshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Denbigh Nearest Village: Bodfari
Map Ref: SJ09527080 Landranger Map Number: 116
Latitude: 53.226509N Longitude: 3.356784W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Erin Robinson, Community Participation Officer for the Heather and Hillforts Project (up to 2012), said “Very little is known about these monuments. The work that Oxford University is undertaking may help to shed some light on why the enclosure was built, what was inside it and how it was constructed.”
“We do not know what they were built for; whether as villages, for defence, for status or for animals, but the amount of effort that went into building these enclosures and the fact that they are still impressive monuments today 2500 years after their construction, shows just how important they were both to our ancestors and to ourselves today.”
Note: A guided walk on Sunday 28th July around this privately owned hillfort in North Wales, to see Oxford University fieldwork on site
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